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IfcI5Lwar wCHAPTER XXIYes they were all at it again thenet and robin the mavis and merle thecuckoo telling us of his whereabouts inthe heart of the thicket the larks fillingall the wide spaces of the sky with theirsilver song But for this universal twittering and clear caroling and flutteringof wings the world was still enough andsilent enough The red kine hardly moved in the meadows golden with butter-1 cups The olive green masses of the elmrising far into the pale blue of theens did not stir a leaf The warm sunlight seemed to draw forth a hundredscents from herbs and flowers that hungfn the motionless airAs one is idly gazing at all these thingsand speculating as to how far a certainwhite butterfly that has started earlyon his travels will wander before theheat of noon causes him to close hiswings on a head of clover there is aquiet stirring of the willow branches andthen a footfall on the gang board con-necting the boat with tne shore Turningforthwith one finds that it is Miss Peggywho has come down through those yelJowed meadows and it is Sir Ewen Cameron who is steadying the plank for herShe has been abroad thus early to gatherflowers for the breakfast table and ineach hand she has a great cluster of buttercups As for the June roses in hercheeks where did sht get them on soextremely still a morning And as forthe speedwell blue of her eyes But shepasses hastily into the saloon for theSower glasses have to be filled-Then this long sandy haired Highlandofficer has he anything to say He observes that the morning is beautifulwhich is no secret He thinks he saw atrout rise a little bit further along Presently lie puts this questionShall you have any neqd of Murdochsjrvices this autumn -I fear not iHe is an exceedingly handy fellowdont you think soI doYj And very willing isnt hefHe is- Well now dont you consider that ayoung fellow like that would be betterin a settled situation than in doing oddjobs about Tobermory with an occasionalmonth or twos yachting in the summerI dare say he would if it was any-- thing of a situationi Do you think he would come to meat Inverfask4 Inverfask x- iJ Yes I would give him a fair wage11 1 11 AK l- - nQf wouia aave eminuyuiuui uu mf t iuround and he might look forward to- - some increase of pay if lie deserved itA permanent place at Inverfask isthat what you meanYesWell when you put that offer beforehinr Murdoch will be a proud ladjAnd you are sure you dont want him-this autumnAlmost certain besides that couldnot be allowed to interfereI will go and ask him at once saidhe and he too disappeared into the saloonWell now the Nameless Bargeseemed to be just filled with secrets andmysteries on this busy morning but ofcourse one had no time to pay heed tosuch trumpery things for we had to makean early start in- order to get through thechain of locks outside DevizesAfteiyleaving Devizes tktre are fifteenmiles of plain sailing without the interruption pf a single lock so that we madegood progress this afternoon The canalwhich is here so little used that itAbounds with all kinds of water plantsthe white buttercup conspicuous amongthem winds along a high plateau whichaffords extensive views over the neighboring landscape Not that we saw thissomewhat lonely stretch of country under iiiost favorable conditions As westole along by Bishops Cannings and AllCannings and Stanton Fitzwarren thestill air seemed to be threatening thun1 der the skies were of a cloudy milkywhite and the hills that rose to the horizon line both on north and south Roughx bridge Hill Easton Hill St Anns HillEtchilhampton Hill Wivelsford Hill andthe like were slowly deepening in gloomThen came rain and forthwith these idlepeople fled into the saloon to books andwriting and tea and what not All butthe faithful Peggy that is to say MissPeggy not only went and fetched thejteersman his waterproof but she alsobrought out her own and having drawnihe hood over her pretty brown hair andfastened it securely under her chin shetook up her position on the steeringthwart Was she still anxious then toshow her gratitude in some vaguetive way At all events her companion--shipon this somber afternoon was sufficiently welcome- But one soon began to discover whathad brought Miss Peggy out into thei rain her remarks about the weather wereX cpeedily over- v Has Col Cameron she asksently with a very becoming hesitationhas Col Cameron said anything anything particular to youNothing very particularNo 1 suppose not she continueswith the same pretty hesitation I hodto ask him not to say anything becausebecause I dont wish Mr Duncombe toknow But you ought to know yes youought to knowDo you think I dont knowWhatAnd this is the way they keep a youngladys secret making it as plain as thenose on a mans face or a weathercockon a steeple And you are especially anxlous to conceal it from Jack Duncombeare you Dont you think it possible MrDancombe may have hfs own little affairs to attend tol Well welL youvedone it at last I suppose and if s veryUttJe you know of the fate you are rush- JJT 3ns upon -you poor fluttering timid sol- HrMvAi i jfifflfeAi2 J-O -JItfilMl RifoiiilM IftA JY WILLIAM LACKVitary creature Banishment to the re-1 gions of perpetual ice that is a prettyfuture for you Think of the gales howling down from the North Sea the glensblocked up with snow o communicationwith the rest of the wordl the riversand lakes hard frozen hail changing tosleet and sleet changing to hail a Polarbear prowling round the riofts a walrusAnd a carpenter you mustnt forgetthe carpenter said this young lady whoisnt as easily frightened as you mightimagine Does he wear his decorationswhen he goes to a levee at BuckinghamPalaceHavent the least ideaThe Victoria Cross anyway He mustwear the Victoria Cross at any state ceremony where the queen is present surely Is it true that when the queen presents the Victoria Cross to any one shepins it on his breast with her ownhandsI believe soI should like to see that done sheobserved absentlyThere was a long protracted rambleand the curiosity of our young Americanfriend about everything relating to theHighlands and the modes of life thereproved to be quite insatiable just as itwas simple honest and ingenuous Whenwe got back to the boat the dusk hadcome down and all the little red windowswere aglow but Mrs Threepenny bit didnot go on board Col Cameron did andwe guessed that she had sent him to summon Mr Duncombe away from his booksYour servant colonel says MissPeggy as we come upWhat do you mean the smallerwomer woman answers Have youchanged services Peggy Youve beena sailor all the way through are you going to leave the navy fpr the armyYes says Miss Peggy lightly 1have enlisted And whats more Ivegot my marching ordersWhere forThis tall young recruit brings up thepalm of her hand to her forehead andmakes a very fair imitation of a militarysaluteFor Inverfask colonel she says andthe night conceals the laughing shynessof her cheeksCHAPTER XXIIEarly on this fair morning the welcomesunlight ris all around us touching hereand there on the red roofs half hiddenriniong the willows and elms making theold fashioned inn and the ivied bridgequite picturesque and striking into theclear water so that we can see shoals ofsmall fish darting this way and that overthe beds of green weed And here isMiss Peggy herself as radiant as theiawn her eyes shining and without malice a placid content upon her tranquillipsSo this is the last day of our voyage she saysThe last full day We shall leave afew miles to do to morrow so as to getJVo Reading about noonrVVhen one looks back she says rather pensively all those places we haveseem appear to be very far away nowDoesnt it seem ages since we saw Windsor Castle with the royal standard highup in the pale blue sky Do you remember the fearful rain at Oxford and thefloodsAnd Mr ABecket yes Tell me didyou ever answer the letter he was sokind as to send you about the antiquities of GloucesterWell I did not slid says hastilyDont you think your wife will do thatfor me She ought The informationwas for the whole partyAt breakfast there was clearly a foreshadowing of the end for already thesegood people were beginning to talk ofthe chief impressions produced by thislong water ramble of ours Miss Peggysfixed ideas seemed to be the remotenessand the silence of those solitudes throughwhich we had passed nd the profusioni of wild flowers Mrs Threepenny bit onthe other hand had some fancy that inthese rural wanderings you got to understand something of the hold that theChurch of England has on the nationalmind the prominence of it even in thelandscape the small venerable strongsquare towered building dominating thetiniest village the great cathedral theprincipal feature and the proudest possession of the townAs we glided along through the hawthorn-scentedair our chief difficulty wasto tell whether we were on a river or acanal for the Kennet and Avon canal andthe river Kennet intertwist themselvesin a remarkable manner and seem tohave all their chief characteristics incommonAbout midday we came in sight ofNewbury the pink houses of which looked very pleasant among the golden meadows and the various greenr of poplar andmapleWe had a delightful stroll in the afternoon along the banks of the winding waterway that is sometimes the canal andsometimes the Kennet and sometimesboth combined That night was our laston board and yet it cannot be said we greater ease can now produce 4-were a particularly mourmui companyTo morrow we should be back in theThames again at Reading Should wetake her down to Kingston whence wehad started and find her quarters thereOr should we send her up the river toHenley with a view to the forthcomingregattaI will settle that matter for you saidCol Cameron as we sat at dinner Orrather I have settled it for you I amgoing to buy this boatReally says one of us who seems tothink he might have been consulted II will explain says this tall Higha hundred thingslander with great equanimity Just beVlow the belt of wood at Inverfask therecis a duiet little bay very fairly protect-ed by rocks in fact close to the shoreit is perfectly sheltered I propose to anchor aiwoy seme way out and have awire ropdvconnecting it with the landthen you perceive by means of a traveler yon couldrun this boat along when7give your visitor afternoon tea Or yonmfght haie a little dinner party in thesaloon for the fun of the thing I havesecured Murdoch he will be captaincook and steward Or you migh bequite by yourselves and if it was a hoteven g and the midges troubling youon shore you just step on board and haulyourselves out to sea Or again supposing Mr Duncombe were coming roundthat way I hope he will and wanted aquiet days work done wouldnt that bea secure retreat for him There could beno better isolation surely or more perfect silence That would be a place towriteIt sounds tempting certainly youngShakspeare made answer perhaps withmistful visions of not absolute isolationfloating before his mindOf course you would have to ask permission Inverfask continued and notfrom me It is not for myself I proposeto make the purchase It s to be a little presentWhy was it that all this tiihe our pretty Peggy had been sitting with eyesdowncast Did she know of this audacious scheme and could it concern her inany wayThen said he wfien I have got possession of the boat then she will no longer be known as the Nameless BargeOh no when she is at her new mooringsin the North we must find a proper namefor herHe looked across the table and Peggyseyes were still downcast And do youknow what I propose to call her WellI have been thinking I could not do better than call her Rosalinds BowerThe endPAPER COLLARS STILL IN STYLELarjje Quantities Are Still Manufactured for Western TradeIt may surprise you to know thatpaper collars are coining into demandagain said a traveling salesman whohandles mens furnishing goods andit may also surprise you to know thatthe demand right along for years andyears back has been large enough tokeep three or four good sized factoriesgoing continually at full capacity Iused to wonder what became of theoutput for I never saw anybody wearing the things and finally I made it myparticular business to ascertain I wasastonished at the extent of the tradeIt reaches all over the West and Southwest and along the entire Northernfrontier from Seattle to Bangor Wherever the towfis or camps are widelyscattered implying I suppose thatwhere laundries are scarce and poorthere is a demand for paper collarsThe largest shipments however gointo the lumber districts of Minnesotaand Wisconsin where the men wear anoutlandish costume peculiar to the region and not to be found elsewhere onthe continent Their Sunday trousersfor instance are generally plaids sevenor eight inches square in the brightestcolors imaginable their hats are insolid red blue green or purple and apaper collar on a fancy flannel shirt isconsidered a very effective combination 4Thousands of gross go to dealers inthe small towns throughout the timberbelt up there and almost as many aresent into the Adirondack counties ofNorthern New York Vermont NewHampshire and Maine I noticed thatthere was an especially large andsteady demand from the maple sugardistrict in fact there seems to be somesort of mysterious affinity between paper collars and forests leading peoplewho earn their livelihood in the greatwoods to yearn for paper collars whenthey dress up It would be a niceproblem for students Still another section where the sales have been enormous is in the northern end of Nebraska where the country is settled up almost entirely by Swedes and Norwegians I was amused in looking overthe order book of one of the big factories to note that the collars sent toNebraswa were all of one pattern a peculiarly hideous narrow little turnedover the design of which must havebeen imported from Europe I haveseen pictures of Baltic peasants wearing such chokers but have never encountered one in the life To returnto the point in reference to an increasein the demand I know positively thatit has almost doubled since the 1st ofAugust and that several new factoriesare now in course of equipment Wherethe new trade comes froml havent theleast idea New OrleanseratvvHIS LAST WORKAMersrentjlaler Perfects Baslcet THTakingMaclljine Just Before lie DiesIn the summer of 1S9S Ottinar Mergenthaler the inventor of the linotypemachine who died in Baltimore recently spent two clays at Painesville Ohiostudying the working of a basket machine which he afterward modified andimproved and which was the last workcompleted just before his death Themachine as completed is as much a revolution in basket making as the linotype has proved to be in typesettingWhere an expert operator formerly produced 300 grape baskets daily by handthe same operator with the machine000 baskets daily and these machine-made baskets are said to be superior inevery way to the hand made articleThe machine is of one horse powerand can easily be attended by a girlits capacity being the same as that oftwelveJiand operators It is practicablya self feeding machine iis the suppliesof bottoms strips for the sides andbands are placed in stocks near enoughfor the wonderful iron hands to reachout and wize aud while one watche3these wonderful hands reach out forthe material the basket is finished andthe machine as it were holds Itsbreath or rather its hands for a second -while the basket is delivered whenit luxuieuittUMy uegiuH iigudu us wuuderf ul performance PhiladelphiajordI Itis figured that the wealtn posever wisnro ana oe oucyem you wouwthird of that sea safe anBksecurer a small fioatingi zj rt CUtt onei ir - -I United States senators amounts tIXWiAAt kUUh tT VUU UU lfClJ lUU CAlfTUi AV m iNYou misrht want tol moe than 100000000METHODISTS AT WOEKQUADRfENNIAL CONFERENCE ISBEING HELD IN CHICAGOA Xiarxe and Notable Asaeniblace ofChristian Workers Much ImportantBusiness to Be Transncted MeaBwreaWhich May Mark InnovationsOne of the largest and most notablegatherings of Christian workers ever heldassembled in Chicago Wednesday whenthe twenty third delegated general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Churchbegan its session which will continuethroughout the month About 050 delegates are in attendance and there is alarge representation of laymen Delegates have come from all parts- of theworld including four from Germany twofrom Italy two from Norway two froriiSweden two from Switzerland two froinLiberia six from India four fitom Chinatwo from Japan two from Mexico andtwo from South America and the list oflaymen embraces many Methodist leadersof distinction and eminenceThe general conference whudi is thehighest legislative and administrativebody of the church acts on behalf of aconstituency of nearly- 3000000 and anorganization embracing nearly 1S000ministers and 14000 local preachers Thedelegates at the conference naturalry include the most able and experienced ofchurch workers and they came fromwidely remote regions from all parts ofthis country and Canada from Germanyfrom Europe and eyen from the orientThe work which this body must perform is arduous and includes besidesthe consideration of questions affectingthe general policy of the church the election of bishops and the administration ofthe immense business involved in tlie conduct of church finances and the variousenterprises in which the church is engaged This year moreover seTeral questions of vital importance and unusual interest will come up for settlement Someof these contemplate measures whichwould mark an innovation upon the accepted policy of the church A new constitution will be considered the questionof lay equality lias been brought forward much time and attention probablywill be given to the subject of the timelimit now placed upon the pastoral termAnd among other things the conferenceis expected to witness a wrarm debatebetween the conservative and the liberalelements upon the question of amusements and the advisability of abolishingcertain restrictions regarding card playing dancing and other similar pastimesBoth on account of the character of thework to be performed and the eminenceof the representatives assembled the sessions of the conference will be of widegeneral interest by no means confined tothe church constituency The businessto be done is as formidably complicatedin variety and derail as that transactedin an ordinary session of CongressBishop Merrill PresidesBishop Thomas Bowman called the conference to order in the great Auditoriumand presided over the half hour religiousservice Then he laid down the gavel andBishop Merrill the senior effective bishoptookhis place and announced the openingof the business session David S Monroe who has been secretary of four conferences then called the roll of districtsand delegates in alphabetical orderThe provisional delegates were admitted without a contest There were 157provisional delegates elected to fill upthe disparity in their proportional representation Only eighty five however responded to the roll call following theiradmission The limited lay representation gave the pews 215 votes Four ministerial delegates were absent As theroll was made up on the opening daythere are 3G5 preachers and 23G laymenon the regular listWithout a dissenting vote the conference at its first session ratified the actionof the annual conference in extendingequdl representation to the laity Thepulpit and the pew share equally in thehighest governmental body of the Methodist Church The ministers were moreenthusiastic over the loss of their authority than the laymen over their additional powers The victory was celebrated by singing the doxology The OldHundred is the battle hymn of the Methodists It announces the conversion ofthe penitent at the revival It is the peanof rejoicing when a church debt has beenraised It is the safety valve of pent upenthusiasm It rang through the vaultedchamber of the Chicago Auditorium in aroar that drowned the roll of the organThe step taken makes the MethodistChurch a democratic body the rule ofthe preacher passes with the centuryThe episcopacy in the church long sincehas been restricted to a superintendencewithout any authority beyond the placingof ministers and suggestions to the general and annual conferencesThe bishops address was read to theconference Thursday It deals with thestate of the church and the progress ofthe past four years The committeeswere announced and organized All theproposed revisions of the book of discipline especially those relating to amusements and dress and creation of bishopswith limited powers were initiated Thursday by resolutions that were referred tocommitteesNeivs of Minor NoteNewport is expecting a crush of noblelords of high degree this summerGertrude Ddspaines 25 of Chicagodied from ptomaine poisoning in NewYorkHomicides in South Carolina have averaged over 200 a year for the last fiveyearsRepublicans at Boston indorsed Secretary of the Navy Long for the Vice PresidencyThe plague has appeared in the Tavarood district of Persia 195 deaths beingreportedFifty thousand dollars worth of automobiles have been shipped to HavanarecentlyThe torpedo boat destroyer Farragutwill make its first real sea cruise- fromSan Francisco to San DiegoBecause girls devote too much time togossip men will replace thvem as operatorsin Paris telephone stationsAtlantic liners leaving New York areby no means crowded despite predictionsof a rush to the Paris expositionM Coquelin and Mme Bernhardt willtour America after the Paris exposition with Cyrano de BergeracCROP8 HURT BY RAINWet Weather Does Considerable Damage in Many StatesThe most unfavorable features of lasttveek asgiven by the crop division of theWeather bureau were the excessive rainsin the Southern States and the unseasonable iovr temperatures over the centraland southern plateau and Pacific coast regions A large part of Texas Inchidingthe region of the great Hood of JuneJuly 1899r has received from two tomore than seven inches of rain washingout and inundating crops to a great extent over the central aud southern portions of the State Too much rain hasgenerally retarded farm work in theStates of the Missouri valley and middleRocky Monntain slopeEastward of the Mississippi river cornplanting and preparrions therefor haveprogressed rapidly planting being in progress as far north as the central portionsof Illinois Indiana and Ohio and in WestVirginia and Maryland Some corn hasbeca planted in southern Jowaand planting will be general the coming week Onaccount of wet weather little ccyrn wasplanted in Nebraska and planting hasbeen retarded in Missouri and KansasIn Kansas and Texas and portions ofMississippi Arkansas and Alabama muchreplanting will be necessary as a result oforerllowsFurther improvement is generally reported in the condition of winter wheatalthough in Michigan and Wisconsinfarmers are continuing to plow up wheatfields for other crops The crop is nowheading- as far north as Tennessee Arkansas and Oklahoma In central andnorthern California high winds have beenunfavorable but the crop has been improved by rains in the southern part ofthe State All reports indicate that springAvheat is coming up finely and makingexcellent growth Seeding is now practically completed except in North DakotaTWO HUNDRED REBELS KILLEDFilipinos Twenty Victims at CatubijrAvenjjeu by ComradesFurther details of the fighting at Catubug Island of Samar in which twentyAmericans were killed and two woundedhave been received The American garrison of Catubig Island of Samar consisting of thirty men belonging to theForty third regiment was attacked byrebels Twenty of the Americans werekilled The remainder were rescuedThe Americans were quartered in theCtitubig Church which the enemy numbering several hundred men surroundedand fiercely attacked The Americansfought for two days and then the rebelsmanaged to ignite the roof of the churchand it burned away and finally fell uponthose inside the edifice The walls remained intact however and were used asa shelter by the besieged Americans forthree days longer the enemy attackingthe building on all sides at once TheAmericans continued firing from the windows and doors of the church and didgreat execution among the Filipinos Itis estimated that over 200 of the latterwere killed many dead bodies being removed from the scene of the fightingAfter five days resistance by the Americans a lieutenant and eight men arrivedfrom Laoan and engaged the besiegerswho thereupon retired The fortunate arrival of these re enforcements preventedthe annihilation of the American force intrenched in the church who hau repeatedly declined to surrender when ordered todo so by the Filipinos The ten survivors were without food had little ammunition and were physically exhausted whenrelievedCANAL BILL IS PASSEDHouse Adopts Measure by a Vote of225 to 35After a stormy debate which developedmuch bad blood and nearly provoked several physicalencounters the Nicaraguancanal bill passed the House late Wednesday afternoon by the remarkable vote of225 to 35 Democrats and Republicansvied with each other in an effort to geton record in favor of the waterway thatis to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific The only party division during thetwo days debate was over the committeeamendments substituting the word defense for iortifications The Democrats voted almost solidly for fortifications claiming that the Clayton Bulwertreaty was dead The Republicans stoodby the committee on interstate and foreign commerce A motion to recommitthe bill with instructions to report backanother bill leaving the selection of theroute to the President was buried underan adverse majority of 52 to 171The passage of the Niciragua canal billby the House does not mean that the billwill become a law A Washington correspondent declares that the Senate will notpass it at this session and may not consider it0-I-The severe strain of university dutieshas compelled President Hadley of Yaleto take a rest of a month in the SouthMrs Caroline S Tilden of New Orleans has given 50000 to Tulane University of Louisiana for a library buildingThe School of Political Science at Columbia has opened a course to fit youngmen for the Government service particularly in the new coloniesAt the University of Nebraska a tabulation of the churches represented among2005 students was made recently Therewere found 155 Baptists 60 Catholics220 Congregationalists 102 Episcopalians 70 Lutherans 458 Methodists 302Presbyterians and smaller numbers representing other denominations Twohundred and fifty gave no informationregarding their church relationship andseventy were- not adherents to anychurchDr John Guiteras has been appointedto the chair of intertropical pathologywhich has just been created in the University of Havana CubaProf Edward Everett Hale Jr ofUnion College is to take the place ofProf Frank H Stoddard in the historicaldepartment of the New York Universitysummer school this yearPresident Sierra of Honduras has conceded to Harvard University the chargeof the ruins of Copan and its islands fora period of ten years with the Tight tomake excavations and remove any interesting things discovered to CambridgeSI HnnuOne of the most prominent figures inthe political life of the national capitalis Senator James K Jones of Arkansaschairman of thefiKrraSvJ K JOESsentntives in 1SS1Democratic jiational committee MrJones is regardedby his colleagues asa man of soundideas and great political sagacity Heis one of the veterans of Congresslnvinr none toWashington as- amember of theHouse ofHe served two termsin tho lower house and then was advanced to the Senate of which he hasbeen a member fourteen years SenatorJones is a Mississippian by birth butsince boyhood has lived at WashingtonHempstead County Ark He served asa private in the Confederate armythroughout the war and at its close wentback to the humble life of a planter Atthe age of 34 he began the practice oflaw and at the same time entered politicsbeing elected to the State Senate in 1873He was president of that body during oneterm He has long beenregarfied as themost influential man in Arkansas politicsFour widows of revolutionary veteransare still on the pension roll although thewar of the revolution ended 120 yearsago They range in age from S3 to 90Seven daughters of revolutionary soldiersare still drawing pensions Of the G9000000 which has been paid in revolutionary pensions 20000000 was drawnby widows One pensioned survivor ofthe war of 1S12 remains He is HiramCronk 99 years old and his home is innorthwestern New York The last pensioned soldier of the revolution did notdie until 1S09 He was 109 years Gmonths and S days old He lived in Freedom N Y More widows than soldiersof the war of 1812 were pensioned Inthat war 290916 soldiers served sixtydays or more The pensioned were 30000 soldiers and 35000 widows To thesole survivor of the war of 1812 the Government is now paying 193 a year andto widows of that war 293097 To Mexican veterans the payments now are 1-107594 and to widows of Mexican warsoldiers 818067 On the Union side theenlistments for the civil war were 2778394 Of these there died in service 349-944 The pensions paid on account ofthe civil war amount to 2300000000and there are now on the pension rolls991519 veterans and widows The pensioners who died last year numbered 14-066 At the rate the veterans are dyingit is estimated there will be reductionof the pensions to S0000000 in the netfifteen years a little mote than one halfof the present annual appropriationSince the present system of money wasadopted in 1866 the United States has issued a grand total of 8152621108 inUnited States notes treasury notes goldsilver and currency certificates and otherforms of paper currency of which 72506S34S9 has been presented for redemption leaving outstanding 901937619 How much of this money is actuallyin circulation and what proportion of ifhas been permanently lost worn out ordestroyed can only be conjectured UnitedStates notes or greenbacks have been issued to the amount of 2997189808 and265050S792 has been presented for redemption leaving 346GS1016 outstanding The latter sum is daily reported tobe the amount of greenbacks in circulation but striking an average in the opinions Nof the treasury experts as to theamount lost and destroyed the actualvalue of greenbacks outstanding is notmore than 332000000 and is growingsmaller evory yeariSpeaker Henderson wears a wooden legand uses a heavy walking stick He waswounded at the battle of Shiloh and theinjuired lug was cut off on the battlefieldto save his life Thcrsurgeons made a badjob of it the wound never healed ahdtthe Speaker has been subjected to fouroperations upon the Stump since the lastabout two years ago On that occasionhe declined to take ether and sat uponthe operating table directing the surgeons As the three former operationshad been unsuccessful he was determined that the fourth attempt should not failand his supervision did not bring bad esults because the stump has troubledhim less since the operation was perforined VAt the close of the last fiscal year tfie ewere 2617 railway iriaif routes ofa fStallength of 17672095- miles ov Qr whfchthe mail cars traveled that year 2S759l26921 miles The Government iTaid forthe railway postoffice cars 41757246and for the transportation of the mails31942150S8jr a total to the railroadsof 3611787574 which was an averageof 12i cents per mile- for transportationand jpostal cars combined li cents amile for the cars alone- -- -Congressman King the successor ofBrigham H Roberts of Utah who wasnot permitted to take his seat in Congress on the ground that he was a bigamist has undertaken to convince his colleagues that his predecessor should berecompensed for certain of his disburse-ments made in the endeavor to obtainihis seat TThe labor bureau has completed a very cvimportant investigation bearing upon thesubject of trusts and the effect of the-consolidation of industries upon wagesThe results will be published in the Julybulletin Detailed and accurate information has been obtained of the variation inwages paid to the different trades fromto the 1st of January 1900 Thereport will be a very interesting and valuable contribution to the discussionnowgoing on -Dont get Ktlght becnse monty ta-ft41ys